[olug] Unix Tip: OOPS.. RM STAR

[Ryan Stille]

Wouldn't creating an alias have the affect of using -i everywhere?  One of the benefits of this tip was you just just put it in your / directory.

-Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: CM Miller [mailto:cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:59 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Unix Tip: OOPS.. RM STAR



or just create an alias

--- troehr at nj-onramp.com wrote:
> That is, of course assuming that you don't have any
> other file names that might
> be expanded in the list before the -i file...
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> > To prevent accidental removal 
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